Gun sighting



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Filed Aug; 2s: '1.931` y CLARENCE WILLIAM Maxl-IEN, OP XAPUBKASING,OIbITABIO, CANADA GUN SIGHTING applicano ma .iugm 2a, 1an. semi au.559,441.

The object of the invention is to attach a flashlight to a gun so thatits beam of light will illuminate the object at. which the gun is aimed.The flashlight is so mounted hetween the front and the rear sights thatit obviates blurring attendant upon night shooting or when the daylightis so poor as to render'it ditcult to aim accurate y..

A salient feature of the attaching clamp is l0 that it holds theflashlight to one side of thc barrel in order not to obstruct the sight.

A very distinctive feature of the invention resides in the provision ofmeans for varying the clamp to adapt it to .various sizes of ns.

eferrin to the drawing, Figure 1 illustrates a tias ilight attached to arifle by means of the present invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged cross section taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the clamp shown in Figure 2.

Fi re 4 1s an edge View of links composin t e adjusting means of theclamp. The

lin ts are shown detached from each other.

Figure 5 is a plan view of Figure 4.

Like numerals of reference indicate corre-4 spondin parts in each ofthefigures throughout the rawing.

3 In the drawing, the reference numeral 6 denotes a conventional rifleto which the. invention is applied. The barrel 7 has the usual frontsight 8 and the rear sight 9.

10 designates the .flashlight which is of suit able type for the pur oseand is attached to the stock 11 interme iate of the gun-sights. It maybe here remarked that the fiashlight itself does not form a art of theinvention as it may be of any ma e that is of suitable construction. s

The flashlight is positioned to one side of the rifle at an angle ofabout and attachei by the clamp constitutin the invention, which clampis generally indicated by the numeral 12. l

The clamp is composed of two hands 13 and 14 joined 4together at 15. Theband 13 cneenzpasses the flashlight und is split so that tn e ends 16can he dmail' together by the wing nut 17 cn the bolt 18,

. The band 14 is of like construction, the ends 19 being drawn togetherby the wing nnt i2@ on the bolt 21. It. is preferable to line this bandto prevent its marring the barret and stock about which' it iseireninposed; A 5- serrated lining :'22 of rnhber or other xnatci rialmay he employed for this purpose.

To provide for varying the band 1l toenable it to be adjusted toditlerent .sr/:es of gun stocks, means may be interposed in the UW bandstrip. The means may consist of a pluralityv of links 23 that can hereadily detached to shorten the band. One end of each link has an openfemale element 24 and the other end has a pintle 25 transverselyextended and 7' joined to the body 26 at each vend by a narrow neck ofmaterial 2 of a lesser thickness than the width of the opening of thefemale element 24. The band terminals 28 are similarly fashioned.

By this construction the links can be inserted and removed by merelyswinging them to an abnormal angle that brings the narrow necks ofmaterial 27 in register with the opening of the respective femaleelement so that the pintle can be slipped in or ont of the engagedfemale element.

1. A clamp for attaching a flashlight to a gun, said clamp consisting ofa bard for encompassing the flashlight, a hand for encompassing the.gnrr2 said bands being joined together and individnaily split, wing nutsand bolts for drawing the split portions of the bands together, anddetachable links interposed in the gun band for varying its size.

2. A clamp for attaching a flashlight to a gun, said clamp consisting ofa band for encompassing the flashlight, a band for encompassing the gun,said hands being joined toethenand ncizirlxally sollt, wing nuts andbolts for drawing xe sp it Dortons of the bands together, and'detnchalvle links interposed in thegun band, each link having an 5 openfemale end and s. pintle at the other end joined' to the body of he linkb narrow neck portions of a lesser thickness an the width of the openingofvthe female end.

Signed nt Kapusknsng, Ontario, Canada, 10 this 12th dav of August` 1931.

CLARENCE WILLIAM MCKELN.

